Silva Agostini born 1979 in Tirana, is an artist living and working in Berlin. She attended the Academy of Arts in Tirana and the Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated as master student in 2005.

Silva Agostini grew up in Tirana during the communist regime, she witnessed the opening of Albania and went through the transition years as a teenager. The upheavals that characterized this period significantly influenced her artistic endeavors. With a cinematic perspective, she absorbed the images of Albania's cities and landscapes during that time, interpreting them as a naked portrayal of human existence.

Silva Agostini's artistic practice deals with the relationship between the present and the past. Current symbolic meanings and dynamics intersect with dispositions of the past carried throughout cultural history, traditional and religious practices. She is interested in conceptual spaces that open up and sublime processes that are formed, when different layers of time encounter. These encounters can span the duration of an instance, the moment of an aria, or that of an entire day. The universality of being over time and its ever-changing form lies at the center of her interest. Her practice includes photography, video, drawing, site-specific performances, and urban interventions.

Silva Agostinis works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, including: Elevation 1049, Draussenstadt – Call for action, the National Gallery Tirana, Bazament Tirana, Belvedere 21 Wien, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Basis Frankfurt, Grieder Contemporary Zürich, Macedonian Museum of contemporary art Thessaloniki, the Muzeul National de arta contemporana Bucharest, Gallery Isabella Czarnowska Berlin, Kunstsammlung Gera, as well as at the Tirana Biennale. She received the Onufri Award in 2014 and has attended the TICA Residency in 2016 and the Art House in Shkodra 2018. She is a founding member of the project space “Very” in Berlin.